Arsenal prodigy Max Dowman will wrap a historic season by breaking yet another age-related record, becoming the youngest player to win a Premier League title.When Dowman receives his Premier League winners’ medal after the final whistle of Sunday’s match against Crystal Palace, the day Arsenal will lift the trophy as English soccer champions for the first time in 22 years, the teenage winger will be 16 years and 144 days old.That shatters the previous as the youngest champion, set by Phil Foden when he was a fringe part of Manchester City’s 2017–18 title-winning team, by more than a year.Foden was less than three weeks away from turning 18 at that time, whereas Dowman only turned 16 five months ago.Dowman—who is already the youngest goalscorer in the history of the Premier League and Champions League, as well as Arsenal’s youngest goalscorer and the club’s youngest starter—has made five substitute appearances in the Premier League this season. The most recent of those was during early May’s 3–0 win over Fulham at the Emirates Stadium.Youngest Premier League WinnersThe record previously belonged to a 17-year-old Phil Foden. | GLYN KIRK/AFP/Getty ImagesSeasonPlayerClubAgeAppearances2025–26Max DowmanArsenal16 years, 144 days52017–18Phil FodenMan City17 years, 350 days52022–23Rico LewisMan City18 years, 188 days142017–18Brahim DíazMan City18 years, 283 days52003–04Gaël ClichyArsenal18 years, 294 days122008–09RafaelMan Utd18 years, 319 days161997–98Nicolas AnelkaArsenal19 years, 57 days262019–20Neco WilliamsLiverpool19 years, 104 days61995–96Phil NevilleMan Utd19 years, 105 days241992–93Ryan GiggsMan Utd19 years, 161 days41How Many Arsenal Players Are Entitled to 2025–26 Winners’ Medal?Arsenal were not playing the moment the title was clinched. | Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC/Getty ImagesUnder Premier League rules, five appearances is the minimum threshold to automatically entitle a player to a winners’ medal—half of the 10 matches it used to be until 2012.Each season, the championship-winning team is given 40 medals that are to be primarily distributed among players who have met the five-match requirement. Any leftovers are usually handed out to the manager and staff, while clubs can also decide to offer medals to select players under the threshold. It is also possible to request to buy additional medals with Premier League approval.In years gone by, players had harshly missed out. The late Alex Manninger, Arsenal’s backup goalkeeper in the late 1990s, played a significant role in the club’s 1997–98 title win covering for David Seaman but only made seven appearances and didn’t automatically qualify for a medal. The club had to specially request an extra one for the Austrian.This season, 24 Arsenal players are guaranteed to receive a medal. Nobody who hasn’t already hit the five-match threshold will reach it on the final day of the season because every player who featured in the Premier League for the Gunners has made five or more appearances.It is conceivable that, from the other 16 medals, one could go to backup goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga. The Spaniard hasn’t made a single Premier League appearance because there has been no need to swap out David Raya, but has been ready on the bench for all 37 matches so far.Incidentally, should Arsenal win the Champions League final against Paris Saint-Germain at the end of the month, Kepa would equal Clarence Seedorf’s competition record and become only the second player to win club soccer’s biggest prize with three different clubs. Each time previously, with Chelsea (2020–21) and Real Madrid (2023–24), he had also only been the understudy goalkeeper, not a starter.The Arsenal players guaranteed a Premier League winners’ medal this season are as follows:PlayerAppearances*David Raya37Martín Zubimendi37Declan Rice36Viktor Gyökeres35Eberechi Eze35Leandro Trossard34Bukayo Saka31Gabriel31William Saliba31Jurriën Timber30Gabriel Martinelli29Noni Madueke25Riccardo Calafiori25Piero Hincapié24Martin Ødegaard24Mikel Merino21Myles Lewis-Skelly19Cristhian Mosquera19Gabriel Jesus13Ben White12Kai Havertz11Christian Nørgaard6Ethan Nwaneri6Max Dowman5*One Premier League game is still to be played.READ THE LATEST ARSENAL NEWS, ANALYSIS AND INSIGHT FROM SI FCAdd us as a preferred source on GoogleFollow